Click the Actions tab, followed by the New button.

From the Action button menu, choose Display a Message.

Fill in the message title.

The message title appears atop the window, such as It’s that time again!. For this example, type Gentle reminder.

12

Write the message.

The message itself appears in the dialog box. For this example, type the text You’ve been gently reminded.

The dialog box sports only an OK button.

13

Click OK.

You’re pretty much done at this point. The Conditions tab provides supplemental options for refining when the task does or doesn’t run. Likewise, the Settings tab provides you with more options.

14

Click OK to create the task.

The completed task appears in the list of tasks at the top of the window.

To test-run your task, select the task choose Run from the Actions side of the Task Scheduler window. The pop-up window appears, but it may show up behind the Task Scheduler window; click the Gentle Reminder button on the taskbar to see your results.

See Video 631 to see a walk-through of how to create a pop-up message task.